About Charles Bukowski: Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken ...
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leis...
from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run ...
When women agree with me I always do the other thing
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to herd our differences under one law degrades each self.
it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
tu figlio di puttana, disse lei, sto cercando di costruire una relazione che abbia senso. non puoi costruirla con un martello, disse lui
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
permanent living peace is permanent living death.
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the pleasure of leaving it all behind.
we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
